It is currently collecting by itself when you log in the first time.
Rewards screen pops up - reward is automatically collected.
We are talking about saving it till new quests come out - that same day.
You know, collect 10 green tokens - daily reward is 10 Viperia tokens - quest done.

I mean... I guess so. It's never really been an issue for me, maybe saved a minute or two in completing dailies... but not anywhere near a priority for me.

Sometimes helps with collect colored evos or gold quests.
In any case, while autocollect is mildly annoying, I'm more frustrated they even bothered with such a minor thing when they have so many more important issues to deal with.